Measuring the availability of human resources for health and its relationship to universal health coverage for 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
Authors: Annie Haakenstad, Caleb Mackay Salpeter Irvine, Megan Knight, Corinne Bintz, Aleksandr Y Aravkin, Peng Zheng, Vin Gupta, Michael R M Abrigo, Abdelrahman I Abushouk, Oladimeji M Adebayo, Gina Agarwal, Fares Alahdab, Ziyad Al-Aly, Khurshid Alam, Turki M Alanzi, Jacqueline Elizabeth Alcalde-Rabanal, Vahid Alipour, Nelson Alvis-Guzman, Arianna Maever L Amit, Catalina Liliana Andrei, Tudorel Andrei, Carl Abelardo T Antonio, Jalal Arabloo, Olatunde Aremu, Martin Amogre Ayanore, Maciej Banach, Till Winfried Bärnighausen, Celine M Barthelemy, Mohsen Bayati, Habib Benzian, Adam E Berman, Kelly Bienhoff, Ali Bijani, Boris Bikbov, Antonio Biondi, Archith Boloor, Reinhard Busse, Zahid A Butt, Luis Alberto Cámera, Ismael R Campos-Nonato, Rosario Cárdenas, Felix Carvalho, Collins Chansa, Soosanna Kumary Chattu, Vijay Kumar Chattu, Dinh-Toi Chu, Xiaochen Dai, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, William James Dangel, Ahmad Daryani, Jan-Walter De Neve, Meghnath Dhimal, Isaac Oluwafemi Dipeolu, Shirin Djalalinia, Hoa Thi Do, Chirag P Doshi, Leila Doshmangir, Elham Ehsani-Chimeh, Maha El Tantawi, Eduarda Fernandes, Florian Fischer, Nataliya A Foigt, Artem Alekseevich Fomenkov, Masoud Foroutan, Takeshi Fukumoto, Nancy Fullman, Mohamed M Gad, Keyghobad Ghadiri, Mansour Ghafourifard, Ahmad Ghashghaee, Thomas Glucksman, Houman Goudarzi, Rajat Das Gupta, Randah R Hamadeh, Samer Hamidi, Josep Maria Haro, Edris Hasanpoor, Simon I Hay, Mohamed I Hegazy, Behzad Heibati, Nathaniel J Henry, Michael K Hole, Naznin Hossain, Mowafa Househ, Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi, Mohammad-Hasan Imani-Nasab, Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Mohammad Ali Jahani, Ankur Joshi, Rohollah Kalhor, Gbenga A Kayode, Nauman Khalid, Khaled Khatab, Adnan Kisa, Sonali Kochhar, Kewal Krishan, Barthelemy Kuate Defo, Dharmesh Kumar Lal, Faris Hasan Lami, Anders O Larsson, Janet L Leasher, Kate E LeGrand, Lee-Ling Lim, Narayan B Mahotra, Azeem Majeed, Afshin Maleki, Narayana Manjunatha, Benjamin Ballard Massenburg, Tomislav Mestrovic, GK Mini, Andreea Mirica, Erkin M Mirrakhimov, Yousef Mohammad, Shafiu Mohammed, Ali H Mokdad, Shane Douglas Morrison, Mohsen Naghavi, Duduzile Edith Ndwandwe, Ionut Negoi, Ruxandra Irina Negoi, Josephine W Ngunjiri, Cuong Tat Nguyen, Yeshambel T Nigatu, Obinna E Onwujekwe, Doris V Ortega-Altamirano, Nikita Otstavnov, Stanislav S Otstavnov, Mayowa O Owolabi, Abhijit P Pakhare, Veincent Christian Filipino Pepito, Norberto Perico, Hai Quang Pham, David M Pigott, Khem Narayan Pokhrel, Mohammad Rabiee, Navid Rabiee, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, David Laith Rawaf, Salman Rawaf, Lal Rawal, Giuseppe Remuzzi, Andre M N Renzaho, Serge Resnikoff, Nima Rezaei, Aziz Rezapour, Jennifer Rickard, Leonardo Roever, Maitreyi Sahu, Abdallah M Samy, Juan Sanabria, Milena M Santric-Milicevic, Sivan Yegnanarayana Iyer Saraswathy, Soraya Seedat, Subramanian Senthilkumaran, Edson Serván-Mori, Masood Ali Shaikh, Aziz Sheikh, Diego Augusto Santos Silva, Caroline Stein, Dan J Stein, Mariya Vladimirovna Titova, Stephanie M Topp, Marcos Roberto Tovani-Palone, Saif Ullah, Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan, Marco Vacante, Pascual R Valdez, Tommi Juhani Vasankari, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Vasily Vlassov, Theo Vos, Jamal Akeem Yearwood, Naohiro Yonemoto, Mustafa Z Younis, Chuanhua Yu, Siddhesh Zadey, Sojib Bin Zaman, Taddese Alemu Zerfu, Zhi-Jiang Zhang, Arash Ziapour, Sanjay Zodpey, Stephen S Lim, Christopher J L Murray, Rafael Lozano
Journal: The Lancet (2022)

Human resources for health (HRH) include a range of occupations that aim to promote or improve human health. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the WHO Health Workforce 2030 strategy have drawn attention to the importance of HRH for achieving policy priorities such as universal health coverage (UHC). Although previous research has found substantial global disparities in HRH, the absence of comparable cross-national estimates of existing workforces has hindered efforts to quantify workforce requirements to meet health system goals. We aimed to use comparable and standardised data sources to estimate HRH densities globally, and to examine the relationship between a subset of HRH cadres and UHC effective coverage performance.